Saturday, December 22, 2012

A light that shines in the dark, A light that darkness could not overpower (John 1:5)

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Son-of-man said...

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Top Australian cleric apologizes for abuse
Agence France-Presse
10:28 am | Monday, December 24th, 2012
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SYDNEY – Australia’s most senior Catholic cleric on Monday apologized to those who “suffered at the hands” of priests and religious teachers after a turbulent year for the Church.

Sydney Archbishop George Pell said he was shocked and ashamed, following a series of paedophile allegations against priests and claims that they were hushed up.

In his Christmas message, Pell said his heart went out to “all those who cannot find peace at this time, especially those who have suffered at the hands of fellow Christians, Christian officials, priests, religious teachers”.

“I am deeply sorry this has happened,” he added.

“I feel too the shock and shame across the community at these revelations of wrongdoing and crimes.”

Without specifically mentioning child sex abuse, Pell said the hurt caused was “completely contrary” to Christ’s teachings.

“We need our faith in God’s goodness and love to cope with these disasters, to help those who have been hurt,” he said.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard last month ended more than a decade of growing pressure by ordering a royal commission to investigate the responses of all religious organisations, schools and state care to allegations of abuse.

Her announcement came after claims by a senior police investigator that the Church had covered up sexual abuse of children in the Hunter Valley, north of Sydney, to protect paedophiles and its own reputation.

The government in Victoria state is already investigating allegations of sex abuse by the clergy with the Church telling a state parliamentary hearing in September that at least 620 children had been abused since the 1930s.

When Gillard announced the royal commission, Pell welcomed it as an opportunity to help victims, “clear the air” and “separate fact from fiction”.

“We are not interested in denying the extent of misdoing in the Catholic Church,” he said at the time.

“We object to it being exaggerated, we object to being described as the only cab on the rank. I don’t think we should be scapegoated.”

Child sex abuse allegations and claims they were covered up have rattled the Catholic Church across the world, particularly in Ireland but also in the United States, Germany and Belgium.

Robert Rivas: Do you have an ounce of shame? obviously not, since you refuse to give up the Abomination.

December 24, 2012 at 3:25 PM
Son-of-man said...

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Rivas:

Are you totally devoid of any truthfulness, and has the perpetual consumption of wine/alcohol evacuated the last vestiges of shame in your being, making you totally demonic?

What loving father would send his son to be beaten and tortured to pay the price for my sins to Satan or to himself??

Who does God Owe?? would you stop telling Lucians this atrocious falsehood? Telling Lucians that God got Joseph's wife pregnant with his sperm(begotten) and is now living with the man's wife in heaven in "Ma-nage-a-tois" – how demented are you Bob? Why don't you get a real job at Valmont and stop digging yourself deeper into Hell?? I can speak to Jennifer to arrange meaningful employment - the trinkets you receive for telling lies will not benefit you in the next life.

And then you have the balls to show a picture of Joseph with this White-ready-made baby god? Bob, “Ou Moe-dee”

December 24, 2012 at 4:05 PM
Son-of-man said...

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Catholic Priest Piero Corsi Blames 'Filthy Clothes and Cold Food' for Murder of Women
Uncompromising Christmas message lays blame for violence against women on the victims

By Umberto Bacchi: Subscribe to Umberto's RSS feed

December 27, 2012 12:25 PM GMT
Father Piero Corsi of San Terenzio, La Spezia, North-western Italy (YouTube)
Father Piero Corsi of San Terenzio, La Spezia (YouTube)

Widespread outrage has been sparked by an Italian priest's Christmas message in which he claimed that women triggered men's violence by wearing "filthy clothes" and serving "cold suppers".

Father Piero Corsi put up a leaflet on his church's notice board in the small seaside town of San Terenzio near La Spezia in northwestern Italy, asserting that 118 women killed by men in Italy in 2012 was caused by the victims themselves.

"Is it possible that men have turn crazy all of a sudden? We don't believe so. The point is that more and more women provoke, fall into arrogance, believe [themselves] to be independent and exacerbate tensions," the leaflet read.

"Children are left outside alone, homes are dirty, meals are served cold or are fast-food-like, clothing is filthy," Corsi wrote. "They [women] trigger the worst instincts, leading to violence and sexual abuse. They should do a self-examination and think: did we ask for it?"
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A scan of the leaflet was posted online and triggered a wave of outrage. Corsi's Facebook page was flooded with angry comments and was shut down.

Maria Carnieri, head of Telefono Rosa, an NGO fighting violence against women, called for the Pope and Italian Prime Minster Mario Monti to intervene.

La Spezia bishop Luigi Ernesto Palletti ordered the leaflet to be removed and distanced himself from Corsi. The priest's words, he said, were "contrary to the church's common feeling on the matter".

But Corsi told Radio Rai: "I don't know if you are a faggot or not but what do you feel when you see a naked woman? Is it not a woman's violence [sic] to unveil herself that way?"

In La Repubblica newspaper he said his words "had been exploited by liar journalists for whom jail wouldn't be an adequate sentence since they deserve the death penalty".

He later issued an apology and said he would quit the priesthood, due to the "pain and regret" he felt for the "controversy caused by his imprudent provocation", but then backtracked and denied both the apology and any intention of resigning.

Paletti suggested that Corsi takes a few days' holiday instead, La Repubblica reported.

December 28, 2012 at 5:35 AM
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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/418594/20121227/catholic-priest-piero-corsi-women-violence.htm



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December 28, 2012 at 5:44 AM

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